]]>Tales Of Treasure In Shoals Flooded Caveshttps://digitalalabama.com/alabama-stories/alabama-treasure-legends/tales-of-treasure-in-shoals-flooded-caves/19073
Tue, 26 Feb 2019 10:11:49 +0000https://digitalalabama.com/?p=19073Local historians say they have heard tales about treasures hidden in flooded caves and other areas of the Shoals.

]]>Louina Alabamahttps://digitalalabama.com/alabama-stories/alabama-treasure-legends/louina-alabama/5889
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 01:03:11 +0000http://digitalalabama.com/?p=5889Louina Alabama was settled by the Indians, pushed to Alabama by the white settlers from the overcrowded east in the 1830s. Louina’s trading post quickly became the metropolis of its day with the area producing quantities of gold. Today Louina is a ghost town.

]]>Treasure Legend Of Cherokee Chief Doubleheadhttps://digitalalabama.com/alabama-stories/alabama-treasure-legends/treasure-legend-of-cherokee-chief-doublehead/19076
Sat, 13 Oct 2018 11:07:19 +0000https://digitalalabama.com/?p=19076Doublehead (1744–1807) or Incalatanga (Tal-tsu'tsa in Cherokee), was one of the most feared warriors of the Cherokee during the Cherokee–American wars.

]]>The Legend of Railroad Billhttps://digitalalabama.com/alabama-stories/alabama-treasure-legends/the-legend-of-railroad-bill/6214
Mon, 16 Jul 2018 04:14:56 +0000http://digitalalabama.com/?p=6214There is a legend in south Alabama, associated with the spirit of a man known as, “Railroad Bill”. This story, from slave cultures, during the post-Civil War era, during the reconstruction of the South, documents a “Robin Hood” type character who stole from food trains and sold the items to poor, rural southern families for less than they could buy them in general stores.

]]>Confederate Goldhttps://digitalalabama.com/alabama-stories/alabama-treasure-legends/confederate-gold/6208
Mon, 16 Jul 2018 01:52:41 +0000http://digitalalabama.com/?p=6208Legend of The Lost Confederate Gold Legend tells of two crates, each sized about 2’x3’x4′ were filled with gold and silver coins said to be around $100,000 in value and buried by Confederate forces. Some stories say the crates were made of wood, some say metal. The crates were buried when Union forces were approaching […]

Legend says that somewhere just southeast of Huntsville, Alabama there is a fortune in gold hidden in a cave. According to the legend, the cave has gold ingots stacked within. This Alabama Treasure Legend speculates that the gold came from Spanish soldiers who were killed near Tuscaloosa Alabama by the Yuchi tribe around 1699.